Obama Using His Pen To Change Work Rules For White Collar Workers

President Obama is using his pen again to bypass those pesky members of Congress. This time he is ordering the Labor Department to change overtime rules for millions of white collar workers including fast-food managers, computer technicians and loan officers that many employers currently classify as exempt. It’s all being done in the name of ending income inequality, which has gotten worse since Obama took office.

Conservatives criticized Mr. Obama’s impending action. “There’s no such thing as a free lunch,” said Daniel Mitchell, a senior fellow with the Cato Institute, who warned that employers might cut pay or use fewer workers. “If they push through something to make a certain class of workers more expensive, something will happen to adjust.”

Marc Freedman, the executive director of labor law policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said the nation’s overtime regulations “affect a very wide cross section of employers and our members.”

“I expect this is an area we will be very much engaged in,” Mr. Freedman said.

Cecilia Muñoz, the director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, said the effort was part of Mr. Obama’s pledge to help workers thrive. “We need to fix the system so folks working hard are getting compensated fairly,” she said on Tuesday evening. “That’s why we are jump-starting this effort.”

I can see it now, employers will just pay these people at a lower hourly rate. Or they will cut other benefits.

What will happen is a lot of these lower-level management, administration and technical jobs will instead of being salaried with generous benefits as they are now, they will be converted to permanent contract positions for significantly less pay and zero benefits.

It means that technical positions will all be hired through large IT contractor companies.who will ship out workers to fill positions on a 6-12 month basis, meaning no stability, no ability to plan ahead, no way to start a family.because you don’t know if and when you’ll be working.six months from now.

And this clown will subject millions, maybe tens of millions, to contractor hell.